A pub known for waitresses clad in kilts and revealing tops will get a second look by Quincy’s license board after the pastor of a nearby church decried the proposal and approval process.

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According to the Patriot Ledger, Tilted Kilt will be back before the board Aug. 28 with its proposal to open in the former Outback Steakhouse at 227 Parkingway.

License board Chairman Joseph Shea said the board’s approval of Tilted Kilt at its July 17 meeting was sent back to the city by the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.

Shea said he wrote a letter to the commission Friday expressing concern that St. John the Baptist Church had not been notified of the proposal after hearing from the church’s pastor, the Rev. Richard Cannon.

The Rev. Cannon denounced the proposal in Sunday’s church bulletin.

“Establishments such as this are not conducive to good family neighborhoods in St. John’s or any other neighborhood in Quincy,” the bulletin reads.

The Rev. Cannon did not return a call for comment.

Shea told the paper that he interprets a section of state law as requiring notice to the church because it is within 500 feet of a business that proposes to sell alcohol.

The law says a business that sells alcohol cannot be licensed within 500 feet of a school or church “unless the local licensing authority determines in writing and after a hearing that the premises are not detrimental to the educational and spiritual activities of said school or church.”

The front door of the church, at 44 School St., is 443 feet from the proposed pub.

Edward Fleming, an attorney for Tilted Kilt, did not return a call for comment, nor did a spokesman for the restaurant chain.

License board member Andrew Scheele said clear guidelines require the church to be notified of a proposal such as Tilted Kilt’s. He said the Outback Steakhouse notified the church when it was planning to open, and he said Tilted Kilt notified a cemetery next to the church but not the church itself.

“I believe if we had sent the packet into the (state for approval) and St. John’s appealed it, they would send it back to us,” Scheele said. “Instead of even going that route, we want to make sure St. John’s is notified.”

According to the Tilted Kilt website, the chain started in Las Vegas and is described as a “contemporary, Celtic-themed sports Pub staffed with beautiful servers in sexy plaid kilts and matching plaid bras.”

Tilted Kilt has locations in 24 U.S. states. The nearest is in Wethersfield, Conn.

The Quincy pub is being proposed by a corporation called Waxy’s Quincy LLC, which is managed by Ashok Patel of Lexington.

Tilted Kilt wants to lease the Parkingway space, which has been vacant since July 2010, when Outback Steakhouse abruptly closed. The property is owned by Atlantic Management.

The license board voted 5-0 on July 17 to grant the pub a license. At the meeting, Scheele raised eyebrows when he referred to Tilted Kilt as a “Scottish Hooters.”

Scheele said he made the remark so it would be clear to the public he was aware of the restaurant’s theme.

“I didn’t want somebody coming back and saying, ‘Oh, they snuck this in there. They knew what (the theme of restaurant ) was and they didn’t tell us,’” he said.